I see you've played Diggy Buildy before: the new Minecraft Thread

I set up a server for my kids and jumped up to 1.13.2 after having been playing 1.10 mods for so long. It's really impressive how much stuff has been added to vanilla over the past few years. There is a sort of version of NEI in vanilla now. And the underwater stuff is really impressive with the gently waving seaweed and shipwrecks and fish in the water. Flooded caves have been reworked too so it's not just a pond underwater, but actual flooded caves. Even ravines can fully flood now.

I'm sure there's a ton of stuff I have not even discovered yet.

Back in December I also got a 1.13 server set up. It's pretty cool to see the base game be fleshed out and playable without mods. Sure there's things I'm constantly like "it would be easier with mod x" but mods also tend to ruin the balance of the game very quickly. There's also a certain charm to not having a minimap, and a simple very reliable Wiki goes a long way.

The built in NEI is just OK. Not that great since you have to build stuff to see everything that opens up and there are a lot of little things you don't craft unless you need it. For example it was worthless when I was trying to make an anvil - iron blocks are not something I normally craft.

We would have added a few mods in, but modders still running on 1.8 puts a stop to that.

For me, the problem is how much space redstone takes up. It makes secret doors much more of a pain.

So is there a more updated version of Agrarian Skies? I've been itching for something along those lines, but I've DONE AgSkies to more than 50% complete on the quest books. I'm not highly inclined to start again.

So is there a more updated version of Agrarian Skies? I've been itching for something along those lines, but I've DONE AgSkies to more than 50% complete on the quest books. I'm not highly inclined to start again.

What are you looking for? Take some time and browse the packs on Curseforge. They show over 450 packs for 1.12 that have quests, and almost 100 that are marked as skyblock packs.

So is there a more updated version of Agrarian Skies? I've been itching for something along those lines, but I've DONE AgSkies to more than 50% complete on the quest books. I'm not highly inclined to start again.

What are you looking for? Take some time and browse the packs on Curseforge. They show over 450 packs for 1.12 that have quests, and almost 100 that are marked as skyblock packs.

I had an accident last night where a mob pushed me into a deep pit and I died. I died a few more times there trying to get my stuff back and failed.

So I stayed away until today, and re-constituted much of my gear...and built a nice sky palace on the central mountain. Next time I play, I think I'm going to seal up that pit and then go down and light it up with torches so nothing ever spawns there again!

I've been on the server a fair bit, mostly just see Huntsman (is he on Ars?) and Lee once. I think folks are on the server here or there as looks like a lot of exploration (map grows periodically). THere's a 'fort kickass' there in the wilderness (not sure who built it but it's there).

I'm learning a lot, like automated chicken farming and stuff though I'm mostly just building and looking for diamond ore at the moment. My second great mob fighting expedition ended quite horribly, ha ha.

@Jeff3F - Woodman668, yeah. He's one of the folks from the Chronicles of George/BigDio forums (you guys are welcome over there, too, but it's a different vibe from the Ars forums). Woodman has built a ton of stuff, including an XP grinder and several farms. He's got a fair amount of spare time

I tend to pop on in 30- or 60-minute increments during the day when I'm on concalls, since I spend a chunk of time on any given day doing corporate stuff these days. A bit of minecraft makes a boring conference call go a lot faster.

I was widening an area, expected no baddies, and a skeleton pushed me into the lava and I lost a lot of diamond stuff.

On the bright side, I was able to connect the Jeff3F mines (which are needed for more diamond production) to qchronod's super awesome subway (I'm a main branch off of his 0,0 crossroads, though clearly my area isn't safe yet (skeletons knock passerby into lava - a Liability Nightmare!).

As Jeff said I started to build a subway system for the server. Current plans are for it to run along the X/Z axis and then you can run a side branch to connect to it. Track level will be @ 16 so as to be above most people's diamond mines and to avoid 99% of the lava. Luckily this level still gets lots of iron, redstone, and gold which is what the tracks need

At the moment I've only connected from my bast out west back to 0,0 so it's just using one track on my branch. I've framed out space for future expansion w/ 2 tracks so people don't collide, and eventually the plan is to ice slab the blocks between the tracks so people can run much faster. (But that is going to take a lot of silk-touch picks and crazy amounts of ice)

Once I've cleaned things up a bit more, I might build a mock station or two for people to copy if they want.

I’m absorbing the unlucky...today I also died by getting knocked off the roof of my mountain top penthouse (I was shoveling snow off of it) but that time I was able to recollect my diamond picks and armor. The lava ate all, nothing left to come back and get! And I’m stubborn about playing survival and all...

I’m absorbing the unlucky...today I also died by getting knocked off the roof of my mountain top penthouse (I was shoveling snow off of it) but that time I was able to recollect my diamond picks and armor. The lava ate all, nothing left to come back and get! And I’m stubborn about playing survival and all...

I've gotten in the habit of always having a bucket of water on my hotbar when I'm mining. Since I don't need to worry about using lava for smelting or generators I don't mind turning it all into obsidian as soon as possible.

Granted that won't help much if you fall into the middle of a pool of it, but in the future it might save you if another skeleton sneaks up on you after you've dumped your bucket.

This is making me question my usual priority of getting diamond gear, ha ha. Do I want to spend more time mining it, or just focus on the "fun" of acquiring it as a byproduct of other activies, such as digging a long subway tunnel from here to there!

I'm also considering setting up my penthouse to discourage mob spawners up there...

Thanks! I was traveling so haven't been on server for a while...but today on the WWW map I spotted a new residence aways off, so I built a path/road to it. but it was so far it was taking a long time to get back to my main house at night thru the mobs, and I built a couple of roadhouses along the way. Haven't investigated but Huntsman put out a ton of jack-o-lanterns and has laid down tons of torches (I fenced off a large area and put torches up too, hoping it'd prevent mobs from spawning there. will see.

feels abandoned, but I am still finding hints of new stuff here and there. Today I decided I wanted a horsie saddle, and I didn't feel OK stealing from huntsman (ha!), so I made a long trek to the village toward rainbow tower (who built that anyway?). my plan at the village was to trade for a saddle from some villager there, but didn't bring my emeralds with me...and I found an unattended saddled horsie in a pen. I didn't see evidence of a non-NPC in the neighborhood so I am taking it for a ride. If someone misses a horsie let me know and I'll put it back.

On a side note, I went all dracula - when it gets dark I just dig a hole in the ground, roof it over, and use a bed. I have spent entire nights out fighting mobs, but I have other things to do now...

There's a house at the northern end of the map that I'm curious about, will probably horsie travel there next to see how horsie travel works (esp at night).

If any of you folks is on Lee's server, sound off here and let me know who you are and where you are. I live near 0,0 (lava flowing down mountain from my place you're all welcome to check it out). I know where Huntsman is (haven't seen him online in a long while though), and qchronod is at the end of the line from a subway minetrack starting at 0,0 (thanks!).

I was hoping this map would have more occupants and higher density of neat stuff, so in that vein folks don't worry about constructing in my neighborhood. also hope it's OK if I build roads to others' places (I built that long road off to the place located near xz 1000,-175).

I got on the server one night several weeks ago. Just got busy establishing my base and core supplies. I'm setting up shop inside the small hill just to the west of the NPC village. My goal is to re-craft the hill with an integrated sort of "nature and glass" architectural style. I also just discovered that colored concrete is now a thing so I'll probably invest time in that too.

Tried to hop on the server a few nights ago but it was down. I'll be on now and again when I need to change the channel from the new Civilization 6 expansion.

Speaking of servers, I started playing FTB Interactions yesterday. (I've only been running it while I'm playing so far)

It took me 6+ hours to finish the first "age" and make a portal to the overworld. I now have a mostly safe camp on the edge of a roofed forest island that I've partially burnt down. Next step is to find coal so i can start making torches the easy way

If anyone is interested in playing let me know and I can start leaving it up for others to connect to. Not sure if people start on the same skyblock, or they each get their own. With the way the quests go, starting on someone else's island wouldn't let you skip much (just save some time waiting for things to grow)

Eh, it's a hosted server. The auto-restart stuff doesn't always work on those.

My starting house is close enough to QCD's valley (And Jeff's big ol' fire) to end up at his house when I exited the nether. Last night I finished a 1500+ block underground powered cart track to get me out to a seashore where I started setting up an ocean platform house. I haven't played a 1.13 game yet so I'm keen to try out all the new ocean-based stuff.

Once I get the books to recreate an enchanting room (or something with silk touch) I will probably just pack everything up and move out there. The railcart ride is a little over 2 minutes - not terrible but a little longer than I like for maintaining a second location.

I haven't played vanilla in years. Some of the stuff I take for granted with the modpacks I'm really missing - I'm not necessarily an expert-mode progression fan like some folks here, but no graves, storage mods, Tinker's Construct, or quality of life stuff like golden lassos is such a big change.

looking forward to visiting you on the coast. That's a good point that there is a lot of underwater content now. Wish it were quicker to zip around the map. Looking like minecarts, or perhaps horsies using flat and straight highways.

looking forward to visiting you on the coast. That's a good point that there is a lot of underwater content now. Wish it were quicker to zip around the map. Looking like minecarts, or perhaps horsies using flat and straight highways.

Don't forget the nether. There's a couple decent nether portal placement calculators out there and you can really shrink the world with them.